Yearly Archives: 2013

Maximize SQL Performance By Integrating SSD Software & Hardware

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Eric Slack

Getting the most performance impact from a flash purchase involves more than just buying fast hardware or efficient caching software. Both of these components must work together to maximize their use of processing power that’s available. The hardware certainly must…

Avoiding Cache Rebuilds in VMware

Posted on February 11, 2013 by George Crump

Using a flash based solid state disk (SSD) or PCIe SSD inside a virtual host to act as a high speed local cache brings many performance benefits but it also brings some challenges. One of those challenges is what to…

Posted in Briefing Note

The Cost of Over-Provisioning Flash Arrays

Posted on February 5, 2013 by George Crump

All-Flash Arrays have to overcome two key obstacles when trying to gain acceptance as storage systems which can be utilized across a wide number of use cases in the data center. First, they must be durable and secondly, they must…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data center, Flash memory, Skyera, Solid State, Solid-state drive
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Are All PCIe SSDs Created Equal?

Posted on January 16, 2013 by George Crump

One of the more popular approaches to implementing solid state disks (SSDs) is to implement the flash memory on a PCIe card, which is installed directly into a server. This places the high performance storage directly at the point of…

Tagged with: Controller, Flash memory controller, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, performance, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, SSD, SSDs
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Easy, Effective and Efficient Server SSD Caching

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Eric Slack

SSDs (solid state devices) are becoming more mainstream and now ‘placement’ technologies like caching are getting increased attention as users strive to get the most out of their solid state investments. Caching primary disk storage with NAND flash can improve…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash memory, HyperCache, Linux, Solid-state drive, SSD, VeloBit, VMware, Windows
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PHD Virtual Enables Low Cost, Multi-hypervisor Backups

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Eric Slack

Whether you’re just wrapping up your initial virtual server rollout or looking to shore up the data protection process, selecting the right backup solution for virtual environments can be a challenge. To address this, most IT managers have given up…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Linux, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual, Virtual Technologies, VMware
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Optimizing MS-SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups With Server SSD

Posted on January 9, 2013 by George Crump

Medium- to large-sized data centers count on applications like Microsoft’s SQL Server to support applications that users need to become more productive so that the business can be more competitive. As these applications move into production the businesses become dependent…